Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-05-14
The Stock Interests.

of wool last year.
 It is reported that yearling steers in
 Utah fetch $14 per head
 The Live Stock Sanitary Commission
 met ill Prescott on Monday.
 It is reported that blackleg still exists to some extent in Salt River Valley.
 There will be no round up in Apache county till about the first of September.
 American beef sellsfor l cent per pound less in Lendon now, than it did one year ago.
 The Chiricahua Cattle Company ship ped nearly 400 beef steers to San Diego last week.
 An old stockman says that the South
 down is daisy for mutton, but not good for wool.
 1 P. F. Clanton hss been jailed at St.
 Johns, having bean indicted for cattle stealing.
 Grass is scarce and but littlo water is found in the White mountains at the present time
 It is said that it requires 5000 cows to supply Denver with milk. The water
 must be poor
 On account of the dreutll, many cattle
 are being driven from Texas to Kansas
 and the Indian Territory.
 Charles Gray has been arrested at
 Springerville and taken to the St. Johns
 jail, charged with stealing cattle.
 Mr. c. 0. Howe, of the Wabash Cat tie Company, of Apache county, has
 been appointed member of the Live
 Stock Sanitary Commission by Geverner Zulick.
 Nearly every saddle horse belonging to St. George Cresghe, of St. Johns,
 Apache county, has been driven off by thieves They are branded with bar and flying V on the right thigh. It is said that pleure- pneumonia Is spreading in Great Britain, because the
 authorities have neglected the ''ounce of prevention. The Live Stock Sanitary
 Commission proposes to use whele , pound of prevention.
 The figures connected with the increase , of the various kinds of stock ill this coun-
 try in the last twelve years are both in
 teresting and suggestive. In milch cows, D the growth has been 31 per cent; ill other cattle, about 100 per cent; in cattle of all kinds, 73 per cent; in sheep, 24I per cent;
 in hogs, nearly 7999 per cent; in all these SS varieties of stock, nearly 53z per cent.
 Arizona cattlsmen, says the Hoof and a Hsrn, are favored by the Pacific Coast : beef market Sales are frequently noted r by the local press of the Territory of ma : tured steers, to go to San Francisco an6 d the demand seems to be great enough tC
 take nearly all the offerings of good bee e from the ranges at satisfactory prices '. Most of the lots are sold on the ranges l. tl4us giving the producer an opportunity ,t to figure out what his cattle are to ne
 him before they leave the ranch. is The cattlemen of Colorado have at las e taken the ball by the horns and organ d ized a company, to be known as tn a American Cattle and Trust Company, B. the object of which will be te fight tn le Armour Dressed Beef Syndicate of Chi n oago. The new syndicate includes Nels le Morris, of Chicago, and many of tn 10 vealthiest cattle owners in Colorado ts New Mexico and Western Kansas. It le claimed that they paid up capital .
 s25, ,0OO, 900.
 A Texas exchange says: ''If ranchme |. will provide their stock with plenty c
 grass and water, hold them until they ar i fat and ready fer market, then avoi af putting them on glutted market, the VI will find that prices will be much mor " satisfactory We'll, yes; if man coul -. make rain fall and grass grow to order L he would have an ideal range; aRd if l:I had $50. 900 in the bank and an incom ~. .:i of $500 a month, he could wait unt . "pricss were satisfactory" and "ths ma ''P ket not glutted" But when a drout T. strikes a poor, struggling stockman, ,5S is forced to sell part of his herd at a na most any price to save the remainder iii Colonel F. M. Woods, in recent il air tsrview with the Las Vegas Stock Grove en says: "What dess the future promise f. ne cattle7 There is but one answer, tht ne must ge higher, and when the chang n- comes it will be sudden. It may tai Ter SIX months, possibly three times tn ms period, but that 1t will come is as sure
 the law of gravitatien. The Unit,
 States has not for the past twenty-fi
 years produced enough cattle to feed h IS own people and supply the export ms mand without constant drain on h nd capital stock. We have only to que IT. the Commissioner of Agriculture's f icy ures to prove this In 1860 we had 8 ion head of cattle to every ,000 people; ce. 1880 we had 710; to-day we have not ing ceed 65O. Statistics alse show that nd have increased the consumption of me nd, per capita in the past fifteen years ent least 30 per cent, and with our great "a crease of population and the unpre, len dentsd losses of cattle during the p 'ess two winters en the plains, and the tho to sands of female cattle which have be len spayed and fattened, and the fact that the least three-feurths of the calves dropI IS in the Eastern dairy districts are veal, fer and the breaking up of 8 large amount be range breeding business, all point to un- same answsr-higher prices fer cattle. !, or
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